Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-13
GIVEN THEIR DOSE.

| Sytttreyk IIaight and Weaver, the Three
| Consptrators In the Frisco Express Rob
| tery MISUNDERSTANDING of the Robbers
| and Fotheringha In Jaii-The Latters
| po.t,top--A Detectives Mash.
Sr Ioufs Jan. 4-The probability or
| Tim Cummings, the Adams Express rob-
| her and his confederates, being brought
| into the Criminal Court this morning,
drew a little larger audience than usual,
| and lined the stairway ana corridors WIN
| people curious 20 see them as they passed
/ from the hold-over TO the court. Among
| these outsiders, so to speak, there was
| fair sprinkling of women.
| The prisoners were brought into court
| at 2:15 d. m and after due formal pre-
! liminaries, the sentences were pronounced
| as follows:
| aFrederick WittroclS: In accordance
| with your plea of guilty to this indictment
| charging you with larceny from railroad
! car, the court sentences you TO seven
| years imprisonment in the penlten-
| tiary of the State of Missouri and TO
| pay the costs of the prosecution, and to
| stand committed until the sentence of the
/ court shall have been complied with"
! He then sentenced Haight and Weaver
| in the same language to the terms recon-
mended in their cases-seven years for
| IIaight and five years for Weaver.
| IN JAIL.
| A dramatic incident occurred just as
! the Jail door closed behind the robbers.
| A tall. slend er young man in blue shirt
was standing against the screen, talking
| to two ladies in the ''cage.'
ssThere is Fotheringham," said Haight to
f.. Wittrock as the halted near the guards
| desk.
Wittrock looked intently at the young
| man in the blue shirt and said: ''By -,
believe it ISL
| Eyes, it's him. asserted Haight.
| BY this time the irons had been removed
| from Wittrock's wrists, and walking
| hastily to the young man in the blue shirt,
| he extended his hand and said: ''Fother-
ingham. old boy, am glad to see you. l
did you a wrong about two months ago,
| but hope you don't bear me any hard
feelings
.sNone at all,'' said Fotheringham, ''al-
| though you took advantage OF me when
| we last met"
! Again shaking hands, Fotherlngham
| continued his conversation with the ladies
4! Shortly afterwards he encountered Haight
and the PAIR shook hands and had a long
! conversation regarding the events that
had TRANSFERRED since they last met. Witt
| rock Joined them, and the two alked for
| some time.
Fotherin CHAM, who now occupies very
peculiar position in the case, said: II
recognized the man Wittroch as Jim Cum
! mings'' the moment set my eyes on him.
His mustache has been cut off and his face
| shaven since we last met, but can never
| forget him. When he spoke to me he
| apologized for what he had done, and as
: he has always told the truth about me /
j told him l had no hard feelings against
! him"
| The fact that the indictments against
! Wittrock ct al. are for larceny from a rail-
road car leaves a chance to yet indict the
| messenger as accessory. Every pressure
! was brought to bear on Wittrock to induce
| him to implicate the messenger, II guilty,
/ but his sole reply was: Il don't care
! what l get the man is innocent" The
! principal evidence against Fotheringham
| is several contradictory statements he
made while in the hands of the detectives.
! His explanation regarding the signature
! of Barrett and Damsel found in his trunk
| shortly after the occurrence is not consid-
| cred satisfactory by the company. HE
ought to be good for $4,000 IN damage
suit said Wittrock.
/ DID NOT KNOW WHAT HIS PUNISHMENT
| WOULD BE.
| Wittrocl stated to a reporter that he
! did not know what his punishment would
! be until minute before he was arraigned,
when Mr.. Glover came into the cage and
/ told them it would be seven years, and
! five for Weaver.
! sMr Pinkerton came to me yesterday
said he, s'and asked me if Fotheringham
/ was innocent. told him he was. Then
| he explained about the indictments for
! robbery and larceny. and / told him
| would sooner have two or three years
! tackled on than drag an innocent man in.
! He said that was right, not to drag an in
! nocent man inn
HAIGHT's wIFE's SISTERS BEAU.
! Haieht was asked to tell some incidents
| of the manner in which he was captured,
and he related the following story, which
/ is ore of the best that has yet come to the
surface: GAS soon as / received the ST.
/ coo | gave it to my wife in Leavenworth,
/ and went directly to Nashville. Soon
/ after l received a letter saying my sister
in-law. Clara Mast, had made the ao-
! uaintance of young man named
/ Monroe, who was very attentive to
i her. He took her out. and it was such a
! clear case of mash that my wife wrote
me that she thought they were engaged to
be married. She also spoke highly of
CIara's new fellow. how good he was, and
such perfect gentleman. Well, the re-
| suit was that this duck, who was Pink
! erton detective, got SO solid with my wife
: and sister-in-law that they took him into
! their confidence and told him about the
! $1,000. Ny wife said had instructed her
.
! be good PLAN Meanwhile he was as
! sweet as candy On Clara Well. that fellow
and the two women went out to a Leaven-
: worth graveyard in the night, and he dug
] the hole in which the money was buried.
! Then, fearing that the plant might be
! changed when he was not around. he
got another detective to watch it
Then he found out / was in Nashville.
and l was surrounded by a swarm
| of detectives. got onto the first fellow
| that came in the house where l boarded.
! His name was Wallace, a regular dude
! There was only one empty bed in the
| house. and that was the one in my room
| I knew man of his appearance wasn't
| staying in cheap boarding house for the
! living he received. Well, that fellow
| slept in the room with me, and had anoth-
| er fellow named Harris shadowing me-
They used to signal each other, and 1
! would have escaped them, only thought
they couldn't find out anything and would
; give the matter up A few days before /
was arrested Clara's beau brought my
! wife to Nashville, and got onto him in no
time. When he appeared in his true char
! acter my wife could hardly believe it, and
my sister-in-law isn't picking up any more
! new beaus.''
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